The Governing Board of the International Energy Agency (IEA) today announced that their 28 members have selected Maria Van der Hoeven of the Netherlands, the former Dutch Minister of the Economy, to be the Agency's next Executive Director. Ms. Van der Hoeven will succeed Nobuo Tanaka of Japan effective September 1, 2011. The United States thanks Mr. Tanaka for his service and offers ...
A new tool tracks the market uptake of nearly zero-energy buildings (nZEBs) in Europe. As member of the ZEBRA2020 project consortium, Ecofys developed the online-based nZEB tracker. It is a Wiki-tool to dynamically assess and visualise defined criteria of the national nZEB markets and to aggregate the results on national and EU level. The tracker ...
Former Deputy Director General at Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry to oversee close IEA monitoring of energy markets Keisuke Sadamori took charge on 1 October as the International Energy Agency's new Director for Energy Markets and Security, pledging to buttress the Agency's role in energy security in his newest challenge during a long career in energy issues and ...
Almost a year ago I informed Parliament that my Department and the Treasury had just been notified about allegations of manipulation of the UK gas market. As I said at that time, I take these allegations extremely seriously. Market abuse is always wrong, and where it exists it must be identified and the full force of the law applied. The specific allegations were that there had been manipulation ...
Is 'unbundling' - i.e. separating energy supply operations from transmission ones, as the Commission proposes - essential to the success of the third energy package? Will it boost investment, or have no impact on it? Is it too far reaching, or does it not go far enough? Consensus was hard to come by at an Industry Committee public hearing of energy experts on 31 January. 'Current rules on ...
The home and building energy management systems (HEMS/BEMS) markets face push factors, such as EU Directives that support smart technology in energy monitoring and management, as well as pull factors from the demand side as technology improves and becomes more easily available. Together with rising prices of energy, these two factors will lead the HEMS and BEMS market to double-digit growth over ...
Until 2012, home energy management (HEM) systems, which help residential customers monitor and adjust their energy use, struggled to gain market traction. More recently, however, non-utility stakeholders have moved into this segment, increasing awareness of new tools and helping to drive steady growth. Click to tweet: According to a recent report ...
On 13 November 2012, following allegations of market manipulation in wholesale gas markets, I promised to update the House on implementation the EU Regulation on wholesale electricity and gas market integrity and transparency (REMIT). REMIT prohibits insider dealing and market abuse in wholesale energy markets across Europe and establishes a monitoring regime for wholesale energy trading. It also ...
A National Energy Board (NEB) report examining energy trends in Canada projects that Canada's energy supply to 2035 will grow to record levels and energy markets will function well, providing Canadians with adequate energy. To gather information for the 64-page report, Canada's Energy Future: Energy Supply and Demand Projects to 2035, the NEB held cross-Canada consultations last spring to ...
The PJM Interconnection’s independent market monitor says in a new report that PJM’s wholesale energy, capacity and regulation markets produced competitive results through the first nine months of 2016, but recommended new changes to enhance competitiveness and efficiency. The report, released by PJM’s Independent Market Monitor Monitoring Analytics, found that energy market ...
LumaSense Technologies, Inc., an Advanced Energy company, is exhibitingsolutions for power generation as well as transmission and distribution (T&D) October 15-17, 2018 at the 17th International Exhibition on Electric Power Equipment and Technology (EP China) in Beijing, China. EP China offers industry professionals an opportunity to network with companies for their professional and ...
GreenWave Reality, a global innovator in the Smart Home Services market which includes Energy Management, Connected Lighting, and Home Monitoring services, announced today they have started a cooperation with Danfoss to extend their innovative Home Energy Management platform to support Danfoss Smart Thermostats. Danfoss is a leading manufacturer of controls for air-conditioning, heating, ...
High energy price volatility has for the first time replaced global climate framework as the number-one critical uncertainty driving the world energy agenda, according to the 2014 World Energy Issues Monitor, released today (Feb. 12,2014) by the World Energy Council (WEC). Global climate framework uncertainty, while still is a key uncertainty, is now perceived by energy leaders to ...
In recent years most of the big players that install efficiency measures, the energy service companies (ESCos), have found work largely in the MUSH market: municipal and state governments, universities, schools and hospitals. In fact, a report in June 2010 by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the ...
Fortum, one of Europe’s most innovative and environmentally-friendly utilities, and GreenWave Reality, a global innovator in the Smart Home Services market that includes Energy Management, Connected Lighting, and Home Monitoring Services, today announced that they have entered into a partnership that will provide Fortum customers in Sweden with a ...
Astoria Generating Company and Siemens signed a contract for the turnkey construction of two SeaFloat power barges to be equipped with eight Siemens SGT-A65 gas turbines. The barges will replace four existing power barges located at Gowanus Generating Station in the Upper Bay of Brooklyn, New York City, resulting in cleaner, more efficient energy production.Siemens will preinstall the ...
Process automation solutions provider, Endress+Hauser, has announced a global strategic reseller agreement with leading energy management software supplier, eSight Energy, to market the eSight product suite as part of its complete solutions portfolio.Following successful implementation in the UK over the last four years, Endress+Hauser signed a global strategic reseller agreement with eSight ...